The General Introduction Of Commonly Used Terms Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Based On Linguistics

Language is an important communication tool of human beings, through the study of linguistics, one can understand the way of human beings’expression. Actually, language is a kind of well-established symbol system of human beings for communication.However, due to the change of time and geographical differences, among the ancient, the modern, the oversea and the domestic, human beings used and use different phonetic and physical symbols, even for the same thing. Thus, studying linguistics to understand the similarities and differences of human beings’expression, you can make a better mastery of the ancient and modern. For traditional Chinese medicine, studying linguistics will bring easier understanding of the ancient writings for the modern people and more accurate of expression of modern Chinese medicine, for the sake of better academic inheritance, development, exchange and promotion of traditional Chinese medicine.Among the words in traditional Chinese medicine, there are many words changing meaning. So taking yin and yang, the five zang-organs and other common words as examples to show vivid changes of the language of traditional Chinese medicine based on linguistics.